Word: cargos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the evidence marshaled by Venezuela came from testimony of captured plotters. As they told it, a C46 cargo plane took off June 17 from Caracas' Maiquetia airport carrying four passengers, including a self-styled Venezuelan general named Juan Manuel Sanoja. As the plane neared Ciudad Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, Sanoja instructed the pilot to radio the message: "Advise the Generalissimo that General Sanoja is aboard plane. Also advise Colonel Abbes Garcia...
...Lulworth Hill, a freighter bound home for England via Cape Town after delivering a cargo of bombs and aircraft engines to Alexandria, was torpedoed by a German submarine on March 19, 1943, off the west coast of central Africa. The ship's first officer and 13 crewmen reached life rafts. Fifty days later, when a British destroyer steamed into view, two men still lived. One survivor died shortly after the rescue. The remaining man, who was the ship's carpenter, tells the story...
...Manhattan newspapers, it was only an item for the shipping page when the Seafarers International Union sent a straggle of pickets to an East River pier to prevent the unloading of an 8,193-ton Egyptian passenger-cargo ship named Cleopatra. The seafarers' grievance: Gamal Abdel Nasser's policy of blacklisting any ship that stops at an Israeli port has reduced employment opportunities for U.S. seamen. Longshoremen respected the picket line. The Cleopatra remained unloaded and unnoticed...
...Welland, the British freighter La Selva bounced off a highway drawbridge, knocking it eight inches out of line. Three other ships missed lock approaches and ran aground. At the head of the lakes the Norwegian freighter Dagfred won the race to pick up the season's first grain cargo-and slammed its bow into a Port Arthur grain elevator. As one British tanker skipper said wryly: "The season has opened with a bang...
...Carney Show (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). The versatile Carney is now a railroad employee ferrying freight-car barges (and strange cargo) across the Hudson River, in a script suggested by a Wolcott Gibbs short story. Color...